Re^4: Useless use of string in return statement

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I believe TheDamian suggested it in the excellent style guide PBP. It’s one of the few suggestions in the book I oppose. Post-fix conditionals are, to me, extremely natural language. If kept terse and indented properly, they make code more readable.

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Re^5: Useless use of string in return statement by Bod (Parson) on Apr 13, 2021 at 15:20 UTC
It's a book that has sat on my bookshelf for many, many years. I did once delve into it and concluded it was beyond me. Having increased my understanding and exposure to Perl quite a bit since then, I have moved it from bookshelf to desk and shall take another look...	[reply]

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